Takenaka Harunao

Takenaka Harunao (Japanese: 竹中春ナオ) was an economic official of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period.

Biography
Takenaka Harunao was born in Edo, and he became an economic official of Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate. During the 1850s, Harunao was responsible for finding the profits and losses of the Japanese economy, and it became obvious to him that the Japanese people were suffering at the hands of the foreigners, causing him much sadness as the Japanese goods weighed much more than any Western goods.